Democracy

Gaëtane Ricard-Nihoul

Senior Expert and Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission in charge of citizens’ engagement, former Member of the Common Secretariat for the Conference on the Future of Europe, former deputy Head of the European Commission Representation in France. Gaëtane Ricard-Nihoul holds a degree in political science from the University of Liège and an […]

Silvia Cervellini

Silvia Cervellini is Co-founder and Director of Delibera Brasil since 2017. After an executive career at IBOPE for more than 20 years, leading planning and service teams for Public Opinion and Market Intelligence. Bachelor in Social Science from University of São Paulo and Specialist in Public Opinion from the University of Connecticut, she is co-author […]

Savaş Zafer Şahin

He was born in Ankara. After his bachelor’s degree in urban and regional planning at METU, he worked as an urban planner in both central and local government institutions. He continued his academic career with two master’s studies on the relationship between local politics and the city, one at The University of Kent in the […]

Doreen Grove

Doreen leads Scottish Government’s involvement in the Open Government Partnership at both a National and International level. In Scotland, Open Government supports the reform and development of trustworthy public services, the renewal of democracy, promotes openness, transparency and the use of innovative participative processes and open access to information to help transform how people interact […]

Nicole Curato

Nicole Curato is a Professor at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. Her work examines how deliberative politics can take root in the aftermath of tragedies using ethnographic methods. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Philippines in communities affected by disasters, armed conflict, and police brutality. She […]